SURFACE-EMITTING 2ND-HARMONIC GENERATOR BY INTERSUBBAND TRANSITION IN ASYMMETRIC QUANTUM-WELLS WITH SLAB WAVE-GUIDE

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作者
CHEN, ZH
LI, MH
CUI, DF
LU, HB
YANG, GZ
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[1] Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica
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10.1063/1.108671
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O59 [应用物理学];
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We report the first experimental evidence of second-harmonic generation due to intersubband transitions in GaAs-Ga1-xAlxAs step multiquantum wells with a waveguiding surface-emitting structure. The second-harmonic generation signal obeys wave vector conservation and propagates perpendicular to the waveguiding surface. As high as 3 X 10(-3) power conversion efficiency has been obtained. The experimental analysis and the severalfold benefit of this novel technique have been given in detail.
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